WEI.
May 29. 2022 ㅡ
My first face-to-face concert ever since pandemic started.
It has been exactly 2 years 6 months and 6 days since #DAY6GRAVITYinMNL ㅡmy last face-to-face concert before the pandemic.
My first time seeing WEi,
#WEiFirstLoveInPH
Short(?) story time!
Same with how I started with N.Flying, I got to know WEi while I was waiting for Golden Child in music shows. Golden Child released Pump It Up on October 7, 2020 while WEi debuted on October 5, 2020 with Twilight as their title track.
The group is not new to me as I was following X1 before and even stan Yohan (i was a hyung line stan in X1 haha). So I got curious when I saw Yohan again and now, with his new group.
Wasn’t actually planning on stanning another group that time, so I can say, I was just a casual listener. And that went on, Golden Child and WEi comeback promotions happening around the same time.
And then came the Bye Bye Bye era, I really got hooked on the song and that’s the time I actually went searching for their songs, contents I can watch and I found their Oui Go Up reality show. From then on, I marathon-ed the show and fell in love with them! A month after, I felt guilty of spamming too much WEi on my Goldenness account that I made an entirely separate account for WEi haha!
Pre-concert
Unlike the previous concerts i’ve attended, this time i wasn’t with my cousin cos she got some schedule that day so i went with my friend Haru~
When the concert was announced, I thought i’d be going alone but he said he can come too cos he knows Yohan as well and wanted to see them.
This concert is a shock to all because everything happened in just a month. The concert announcement was in May and the ticket selling started a week after the announcement and the concert was 2 weeks after the ticket selling. It was handled by CDM Entertainment, and was actually a joint concert having Alice, WEi, NCT Dream and Shinee’s Key as the artists.
Anyways, before the concert, me and Haru planned to meet a bit early cos we wanted to attend the cupsleeve event in D’cream in front of Kia Theater, when we got there, there was already like a lot of people so we thought we might not able to get in in the first 20 who’d get their drinks for free, but turns out we are just on time and were the last ones to get it haha. Since there were no tables available, we just got our drink and freebies and went to Mcdonalds for lunch.
Since it was lunch time, Mcdonalds was actually kind of full also, we tried checking if there are seats upstairs but there’s none. So we went back down and suddenly someone saw that we were holding WEi freebies from the cse and asked us if we wanted to share a table with them. It was so funny cos the girl who talked to me looked familiar and it was Maeriel, one of my mutuals during X1 days haha. We became friends after attending x numbers of cupsleeve events for X1 before haha! So me and Haru stayed there, we had our lunch there together with Maeriel and Mimay, then we went back to the cup sleeve event in D’cream.
From then on, we just stayed in the cafe until the people started to leave the cafe as they planned to line up for GenAd entrance. Me, Haru and Mimay actually were GenAd ticket holders and Maeriel got an Upper Box ticket. But the three of us were just chill and planned on leaving when the gate opens.
I also met with Juys in D’cream. Juys is one of my Inspirit friends as well and we first met during N.Flying Up All Night in Manila where she was giving away banners and some freebies before the concert haha.
Me and Haru also met Angge there in D’Cream. Angge is too kind and even gave me and Haru a gift before leaving. It was a short meet up but we were glad to meet her finally~
Concert Proper
Before we got in, we had a small problem because we weren’t able to exchange our e-tickets for a physical one because the line was too long!! Even when they started having GenAd come into the coliseum, the line was still long in the ticketing booth. I did have a printed e-ticket but they were too small so they couldn't scan it. We spent like a couple of minutes there trying to re-load the email and the ticket for them to scan.
After we got in, we tried to look for the area assigned for RUis, but to our surprise, they were all taken by Czennies. We weren’t able to find some of our co-RUis as well :( Also, I was assigned to distribute the banners for WEi but i wasn’t able to find it around GenAd area ugh.
Anyways, my concert buddies! We started with just the 3 of us and we saw one RUi with her aibong so I asked her if she wanted to sit along our row and she agreed so yay +1!
First group to perform was Alice followed by WEi, NCT Dream and Key.
WEi performed a total of five songs starting with Twilight, followed by All Or Nothing, Bye Bye Bye, Super Bumpy and Too Bad. They had an introduction and a short ment after Twilight then after All Or Nothing, they played games! Daehyeon lost in one game and had to do 5-heart-set aegyo but it went on to 10 because the members kept on counting haha! Daehyeon was so cute running out of heart poses that time haha! The next punishment was for Junseo to dance to MonstaX Love Killa but the members joined him too so we saw them dance to Love Killa live WAAAH.
Overall, it still feels surreal, having to get to know WEi recently and seeing them perform live. It was surely a moment to treasure. They were the latest group I got to know during the pandemic and the first group I got to see live after the pandemic hit. I will forever treasure this memory! Thank you for this amazing night, WEi! I hope to see you all again in a solo concert! We will promise to give you the BEST crowd you can ever have and an ocean full of RUis!
We will be waitin’~
